Private investigation isn't on the list of a southern belle's most desirable accomplishments--but it's saved Sarah Booth Delaney's Delta homestead. Now all she has to cope with is its bossy antebellum
Only a handful of authors write with such startling originality that the uniqueness of their vision has become synonymous with their name. In Spares and One of Us, Michael Marshall Smith has earned th
A secret Arctic experiment turns into a frozen nightmare when a team of scientists, stranded on a drifting iceberg with a massive explosive charge, battle the elements for survival, only to discover t
Still the finest comprehensive analysis of the subject to have appeared in English, Magical Reels charts the development of Latin American film industries in a world increasingly dominated by the adva
Betina Krahn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soft Touch and The Perfect Mistress, casts her beguiling spell once more with this warm and witty love story....She was an independent woman-
Cruciverbalists, rejoice! Pick up a pencil and get ready to solve a puzzling murder-and an actual crossword puzzle-in this sparkling debut of a unique amateur detective: Miss Cora Felton, an eccentric
The First Americans Saga continues...As the retreating ice age scars the land, old rivalries between the survivors threaten the first Americans.As the Age of Ice ends, the People must follow a new pat
His love was wild...??his soul untamed...??his touch forbidden....From acclaimed author Susan Krinard comes the second novel in a magnificent trilogy of a powerful clan whose sensual legacy is cloaked
The New York Times bestselling prequel to the classic award-winning saga by Frank Herbert.Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By hi
From Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of two landmark Star WarsR series, comes an??original new tale featuring a renegade space pilot, his unusual alien partner, a
What if you can enter a madman's cruel mind as he plans his vicious crimes? What if you can see the terrified face of his prey as he moves in for the kill—but you can't stop his frenzy once he strike
From bestseller to death-dealerLondon's Plumtree Press has a world-class bestseller of a novel. And the sequel is earmarked to get this old family firm out of the red. But its anonymous author, known
If there's one thing Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmet Quanah Parker knows, it's that the dead don't always stay dead. With him he carries the ghosts of a partner killed in action, three fai
With Mama on the case, murder meets its match....A tryst with a deadly twist.All I'd wanted to do back home in Otis, South Carolina, was whip up a wonderful thirty-fifth anniversary party for my paren
With the end of the beaver trade at hand, free trappers like Titus Bass must somehow make their way on a changing frontier. Drawn by the promise of adventure and wealth, Bass joins an expedition to Sp
The lady and the commoner...Lady Christiana Fitzwaryn was not opposed to marriage.??But she demanded to be married on her own terms, not as punishment for a romantic indiscretion, and especially not t
Dear Readers,I had heard the gossip. Who in London hadn't? But whether or not the elusive Venus Duras would favor one of her numerous suitors didn't concern me. After all, I had a surfeit of obliging
Earth has been ravaged by galactic disaster--but the real devastation is yet to come.The end draws nigh....The year is 2053, and Earth has barely recovered from the Alpha Centauri supernova that destr
Here First is an important new collection of essays by Native American writers compiled by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann, the editors of I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writ
In the American heartland, someone is killing cops.The ambush exploded in an Iowa marijuana field. The weapons were high caliber. The pot was high grade. And the reporters said afterward: "We
On location in Colorado for her syndicated television show, Gardening with Nature, filming alpine butterflies and avalanche lilies, Louise Eldridge can see why this beautiful terrain is as precious as
A conflict between the neighboring kingdoms of Ixti and Eron--the former an overpopulated land of high power, the latter a realm of natural resources--turns explosive when a young apprentice discovers
The startling Antarctic discovery...The revelations about life on Mars...Shocking new proof about who we really are! From outer space to deep prehistory, from ancient Egypt to the planet Mars, the co
When a friend fails to show up to a dinner date and then turns up dead, excop Mail Anderson suspects the woman's brutal exhusband and steers a course through Harlem's mean streets to prove it. Reprint
Millions of Americans are finding it more and more difficult to apply the traditional demands of organized religion to their lives, and yet a complete absence of spirituality leaves them uneasy. Worki
Nature. Nurture. Murder.L.A. actor Joe Portugal just wants to keep the mealybugs off his cacti, give a little boost to his love life, and maybe make a few commercials along the way. And with a small a
I slipped off my clothes and dove into the pool. We are 96 percent liquid. There is nothing more sensuous than a good splash against naked skin: the initial rush of cold, the smooth acquiescence of in
New York Times bestselling author Gentry Lee, co-author with Arthur C. Clarke of Rama II, The Garden of Rama, and Rama Revealed, tells an unforgettable tale of two timeless lovers, a group of Martian
From the beloved Sandra Brown, whose "storytelling gift [is] surprisingly rare" (Toronto Sun), comes this New York Times bestselling novel, an exquisitely sensual tale of a young woman's sudden, irres
A down-to-earth forensics expert has just discovered a crime scene that is out of this world.In criminal forensics they train you to uncover evidence, no matter how brutal or bizarre the murder.But wh
The gutsy heroine of Bitch Factor, bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan, returns to combat a shadowy ring of vigilantes who exact revenge on a rapist and spirit away an abusive mother who had been acquitted
Hailed as "one of the best writers in the business" by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, multi-award-winning author Maggie Osborne delivers hilarious and heartrending tales of resilient women full of grit, pr
A Vietnam vet and former U.S. Marine describes the arrival of the 2nd Battalion and 7th Regiment "incountry" in 1965, describing the treacherous jungle terrain, enemy ambushes, and disease that dogged
Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good a
Home is wherever the heart leads....The ties that bind us--to our families, to our pasts--are at the heart of this deeply engrossing story.??Venus Arinelli saw her future as a concert pianist shattere
From the author who knows all the secrets of a woman's heart comes a tantalizing tale of holiday romance—as a young woman discovers how a night of passion can change your life, and your dreams, foreve
The perfume of old books and the smell of danger...Publisher Alex Plumtree is in for the most astounding week of his life. First he comes into possession of a rare, centuries-old book, rumored destroy
Elizabeth Thornton, author of the nationally bestselling Whisper His Name and You Only Love Twice, combines ravishing romance with spellbinding suspense in her most dazzling love story yet....Througho
Two things Mama knows: sweet-potato pie...and murder.Old bones and buried secrets...I would have thought a bunion operation might slow Mama down, but I should have known better. We found ourselves kne
